Colson Whitehead Quotes
Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history.Colson Whitehead
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
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We always trend set.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.
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I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.
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The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
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It's not the cards that you have all the time that makes you a winner or a loser.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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Reagan was the most important American political figure of the latter half of the 20th century. No one was more central to his emergence and success than Bill Buckley.
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Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular or idiomatic modification of musical conventions imported from Europe, beginning back during the time of the early settlers of the original colonies.
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Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history.
Colson Whitehead
